Job Details

Director of Civil Engineering –

A growing engineering and planning firm is seeking a motivated and talented Project Engineer with strong transportation experience to join their Denton TX office . This is an opportunity to play a critical role in expanding a dynamic transportation portfolio.

Practice Leadership and Project Delivery

• Grow and diversify the practice with a focus on: municipal engineering, site design engineering, and other services, as added.
• Work closely with the firm's principals to develop and execute the strategic direction for the group practice, balance workloads across regions and business lines, and pursue strategic business development opportunities.
• Lead the team in alignment with Antero Group's core principles, and cultivates a culture of shared trust, democracy, comradery, and excellence.
• Elevate the profile of Antero Group by developing an external brand image and internal culture characterized by technical excellence, client satisfaction, consistent results, and innovation.
• Oversee the delivery of high-quality products and deliverables and ensure that projects and deliverables are meeting or exceeding client expectations.
• Participate in projects, either as a project manager, technical or subject matter expert with a reasonable level of billable utilization on major projects.
• Oversee the development and implementation internal business operations and systems that improve efficiency and quality and support continual process improvement and innovation.
• Work closely with the firm's principles to provide strategic, administrative, and financial oversight of the practice.
• Oversee the financial performance of the group, including revenue and bottom-line delivery of the practice's portfolio of urban planning and design projects.
• Lead a team of high performance, urban planners, design professionals, subject matter experts, and other support staff.
• Motivate the team to achieve success in both business development and project delivery.
• Hire, manage, and mentor staff.
• Improve the diversity of the team to better reflect the clients and communities that we serve.
• Oversee employee development program, including performance planning and evaluation, training, and succession planning.
• Pursue grants, technical assistance, and other awards on behalf of our clients and partners.
• Represent the firm in the market through involvement in client and industry events and associations to promote intelligence gathering and pipeline development.
• Seek out opportunities to grow develop new business through cross-sectoral collaboration with Antero Group's Civil Engineering and Strategic Consulting practices.
• Participate in professional associations, boards, and committees.
• Speak at conferences, publish papers, and earn professional certifications and accreditations.
• Participate in negotiations to secure contract awards.
• Participate in project kickoff meetings, interim progress meetings, close out meetings, and other activities to ensure client satisfaction and resolution of project issues

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate is motivated, ambitious, and has a strong grasp of civil engineering methods, tools, and processes with a focus on transportation-related projects;
• Experience managing staff and project work;
• Extensive project design background, including overseeing design submittals and approvals;
• Ability to visit other offices (Travel is typically limited to not more than once per month or less);
• Experience working with various agencies;
• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related field; and,
• 10+ years of civil engineering experience (PE preferred), with at least 4 years of managerial experience.

Salary, guaranteed bonus, full benetfits, flex work hours, team and client outings